But he says he found it almost impossible to break out of the reality straitjacket; he was even knocked back by The Bill ("Once they turned me down I thought that was that, I'll never do it").
VASCO DA GAMA is in a straitjacket; he never should have landed back in modern Lisbon.
It is almost inconceivable that Russia, with its burgeoning new middle class, could be stuffed back into the totalitarian straitjacket of old.
Mayor Mick Ireland of Aspen said he thought the newly restrictive covenants were an effort to "straitjacket" the city into allowing a change back into private use as a solution to everyone's problems — more money for Ms. Jaeger's foundation and the dropping of objections from the neighbors.
That event touched off the combat killing spree that put Dale Jackson in a straitjacket, sent him narcotized aboard a plane back to a United States where Vietnam veterans were spat upon, and brought him the Medal of Honor from the hands of President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House.
There's a long tradition of countries extricating themselves from monetary straitjackets when they become suicidally confining, dating back to Franklin Roosevelt's decision to take the U.S. off the gold standard in 1933, when he needed a firmer hand to manage recovery from the Great Depression. .
The media, taking their cue from the Tokyo establishment, have not thought properly to report the unfolding struggle for food and fuel.Yet businessmen and victims say supplies are being held up as bureaucracies fall back on tired old rules and straitjacket procedures.
When looking for a place to live, I have to keep in mind that I will be bringing not groceries, but a straitjacket, chains and a huge bucket of broken glass back and forth to my car on a regular basis.
The shirt had armholes at the shoulder, and the sleeves were tied decoratively at the back -- an effect slightly reminiscent of a straitjacket, perhaps to remind me of my feckless behavior with the forgotten coat.
He unleashed a torrent of profanity at a reporter after the reporter shouted, "Put him in a straitjacket!" Backstage, Jose Sulaiman, the World Boxing Council president, sat woozily, after the back of his head was knocked into a table and he was left briefly unconscious.
